The Penn's Grove record., 1887-05-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK

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"A serious state of affairs is repor.
ted in Louisville. Turner and Patter.
son, the coloTed assallants of Jennie
Bowman, were taken back from Frank
fort on the 18th ult., and lodged In the
Louisville jail. At l o'clock on the
morning Of the 29th, a mob of several
hundred men and boys mobbed the
jail, but were dispersed by the police.
The attack was subsequently repeated
twice, the would-be lynchers being
each time repulsed. Later in the day,
at the request of Judge jackson, of the
Circuit Court, several companies OF
soldiers were ordered to guard the jail.
The Mayor also issued a proclamation
announcing his determination to pre-
serve order, and giving the usual warn
ing. Notwithstanding this a crowd
gathered, and DR.. Berry, said to be a
prominent physician, harangued them,
advising lynching. Large crowds con-
tinue to gather nea the jail and on a
prominent place near the Court House
was posted in Illuminated letters:
"Wanted, 500 men, to join the moD.'
Two companies of melitia were kept at
the armory, a few squares from the jail
and at eleven O'Clock on the evening of
the Goth ult., they arrived at Che jail
with a gattling gun. Ten thousand
people were on the street near the jail,
but the crowd, which included many
women, seemed actuated chiefly by
curiosity. About two hours later
nearly all had dispersed.
james d. Westcott, ex-Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of Flori-
da, died on the Goth ult., in Tallahas-
see. He was a son of the first United
States Senator from that State. Marker
Bush died on the 29th ult., at the City
Poor Farm, Pittsburg, of softening of
the brain. He was for many years
proprietor of the Bush House in Pitts
burg, and at one time also owned the
Point Breeze Hotel, Philadelphia. Re-
ported to be worth $500, 900 a few years
ago, he died poor, having gambled and
lost large sums by betting on horse
races.
-Jonn Hansen and Henry GosiInel,
while boating on a mill pond at Lisbon,
New Hampshire, on the Goth ult.
were carried over a dam and drowned.
SIX tramps got into a fight at the
natural gas we'll near Anderson, In
diana, on the 28th ult. and two of
them were pushed into the flame of
the burning gas. One died almost in
stantly from inhailing the flame, and
the other was fatally burned. Abra-
ham Littlejohn and his wife, an aged
couple, persisted in their burning dwell
ling, near Clinton, Alabama, on the
evening of the 28th ult. Circumstances
indicate that they were murdered and
that the house was burned to conceal
the crime. Felix Griffin was shot dead
and two others were badly wounded
while trying to steal horses from a
stable neal Webber's Falls, Arkansas,
on the evening of the Doth ult. Charles
Pillepaugh, a farmer, of Grafton, Wis
consin, was found murdered n bis
house on the goth ult., and the dwell
ling had been ransacked. He lived
alone. Andrew Tlngle. an aged man,
was found ON the Goth ult. on the
roadside neal Hummelstown, DauphIn
county, Pennsylvania, with a bad
scalp wound, evidently inflicted by an
axe. He was unconscious and nearly
dead from loss of blood when found
and his recovery is doubtful.
The Commissioner of Agriculture,
on the Goth ult., received a telegram
reporting the existence of contagious
pleuro-pneumonla among cattle at
Golden Bridge, New York.
Rev. A. NJ. Morrison stole a horse
and buggy in Baltimore on the 9th ult.
A few days ago he was arrested in
Massachusetts, and returned to BaIti-
more. He was tried and convicted on
the 29th ult. and sentenced to seven
years. Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary at hard labor.
1t is said that the men who robbed
the express train on the Southern Pa
eific Railroad at Papago Station, Arr.
IONA, on the evening of the 9th ult.,
have been spotted" and that sit will
be only a question of time before they
are captured"
e. f. M. Simmons, late manager
Of the burned Hotel Del Monte, at
Monterey, California, was held in $780,
600 bail on the 28th ult. on the charge
of setting fire to the hotel.
AT Wethersield, Connecticut. on
the evening of the 10Th ult., a farmer
named Cowles discovered a tramp in
bis barn lighting a match. He ordered
the tramp out, bnt the fellow drove out
Cowles with a pitchfork, and deliber-
ately fired the barn, which was de-
stroyed with its contents. The tramp
remained inside until the fire was past
control, when he fled. He was cap
tured by Cowles and the nelghbors,
after he had been crippled by buckshot
and dubbed with the stock of a gun.
at Roseburg Station, twelve miles
west of Pittsburg, on the Both ult.,
Abraham McCrea and John Gibbs
qnarrelled over a disparaging remark
made by the latter about a young wo-
man. Gibbs struck McCrea on the
head with a cane, and McCrea shot
Gibbs in the face. AT last accounts
both were In a critical condition. On
the night of the 29th ult. a band of
regulators" surrounded a dIsreputable
house neal Winchester, Ohio, the oc-
cupants of which had paid NO atten-
tion to previous notices to leave.
When the leader knocked at the door
and informed the occupants that they
must leave, a voliey of shots came from
the windows, wouading several OF the
party, one fatally. While some young
men were ''skylarking'' in Washing
Eton, on the 29th ult., Gustave Fosberg
a young artist, was stabbed with a
penknife by his friend, George. b.
Matthews. The knife penetrated to
within an inch of the heart, and Eos.
berg's recovery is doubtful.
An express train on the Northern
Pacific Railroad ran off the track
ne ar Driscoll Station, Dakota, on the
Both ult., and five out of seven
coaches tumbled into a ditch. W. o.
, Breed, OF Fairbault, Minnesota. was
killed, and eight others were injured,
including four United States soldiers.
Que of the injured is H. n. Scobel,
Assistant Superintendent of the
! Northern Pacific telegraph lines; his
recovery is doubtful. "A freight train
and a coal train on the Reading Rail-
road collided on a curve at Mintzer's
Station, near Tamaqua. on the after
noon of the Both nlt. Both engines
and a number of box ears were
wrecked. A brakeman, named Pruilt,